The Ex and Her Riches

It was time to get off work again.

Whitney hesitated whether to head to the underground parking lot.

When I left this morning, Charles refused to join me. I don’t think he’ll pick me up after work, right? But if I don’t go to the underground parking lot and he really did come to drive me home, he’ll be mad when he doesn’t see me. We only argued once yesterday, but the atmosphere between us is really suffocating. There are still eleven months until the end of the contract, and we’ll likely meet each other every day. I can’t keep avoiding him.

After some deliberation, Whitney decided to text him, asking him if he was coming, and then apologize to him.

Charles and I are only a married couple by contract, so I was wrong to overstep my boundary and ask about his past. More than that, I shouldn’t have brought up the matters between him and Gwendolyn.

She tapped on the WhatsApp icon on her phone and immediately saw Charles’ name at the top of the screen.

Just as she was ready to type her message, Lana suddenly came over from the side.

Whitney quickly turned off her phone so Lana wouldn’t see anything.

“Tch, what’s there to hide? Were you texting Isaac? Is it because you want him to pick you up after work? What car does he drive?”

Whitney was a little offended. “I don’t know what car Isaac drives, and I don’t have a relationship with him. But I doubt you’ll believe me, so I won’t repeat myself again in the future.”

Lana rolled her eyes and sashayed back to her desk.

Gripping her phone, Whitney became hesitant to text Charles again even though she had made up her mind earlier.

At that moment, her superior suddenly approached her. “Come to my office, Whitney. I have a task for you tomorrow.”

phone and followed

fast learner, her superior provided her with something new to work on, allowing her to tackle them at her

meeting lasted

the time Whitney left the office, almost all her

packing her things and taking the

around the underground parking lot and didn’t spot Charles’ luxury

ten minutes. If Charles had been here, he definitely would have called to reprimand me after

the parking lot, Whitney was

behind her. Thinking that it was Charles, she spun back in

explained, “Mr. Newton had something to do today and didn’t come to the office all day. I’m guessing he has already returned to the Newton residence. I

eyes as she lowered

so I may be returning to the

she genuinely wasn’t planning to join him instead of just being polite, Isaac said, “All right, then. You be careful

planning to leave the building

Newton residence is quite far. I don’t think I

contemplating her next move, she took a bus to a subway to familiarize herself

lying on the bed,

kindergarten, was sitting across from him and doing

tilted her head and looked at the paper

while writing, answered, “I’m planning how to remodel the oceanarium. Then, I’ll hand the plan to Charles. He’ll buy the animals listed on this paper and renovate

more as she moved closer

was brilliant. While he was a little rusty in drawing the plans of the oceanarium, it was a good blueprint, so much so that even Zendaya could

he didn’t include the dolphinarium on the

the dolphinarium? Do you not want it? Where will my Juju live in

creatures. It doesn’t match my style. I want

of her wits. She sobbed out, “You’re lying! You had so much fun with Juju yesterday, yet now you’re calling her immature and want to destroy her home! A-And you want to feed me to scary animals! Do you not love me anymore,